Published: 2024-08-19

1790: The End of Truth in the Interpretation of Complex Contexts

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Section: varia - follow-ups and anticipations
https://doi.org/10.31261/errgo.16019

Abstract

The paper argues that the standard pro- and anti-Kantian reception of the Critique of Judgment has largely misconstrued the relationship between Part I and Part II of the book by failing to recognize that the former is primarily providing a series of stepping-stones laying the groundwork for the elaboration of reflective-teleological reasoning in Part II. Instead of its dominant reading as foremost relevant to the study of biological nature, the paper distils from the reflective-teleological judgment a universal principle by which we typically interpret any complex set of particulars. As such, the reflective-teleological judgment of 1790 is shown to have done away with interpretive truth, replaced by Kant with the more modest claim of intelligibility.

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Ruthrof, H. (2024). 1790: The End of Truth in the Interpretation of Complex Contexts. Er(r)go. Theory - Literature - Culture, (48), 311–330. https://doi.org/10.31261/errgo.16019

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No. 48 (2024)
Published: 2024-08-23


ISSN: 1508-6305
eISSN: 2544-3186
Ikona DOI 10.31261/errgo

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University of Silesia Press | Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego i Wydawnictwo Naukowe "Śląsk"

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